Job’s Prosperity Becomes Calamity

Job 30:22

In 11 translations

BSB: You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.Or You dissolve me
KJV: Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.substance: or, wisdom
WEB: You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
ASV: Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride upon it; And thou dissolvest me in the storm.
LSV: You lift me up, || You cause me to ride on the wind, || And You melt—You level me.
YLT: Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest — Thou levellest me.
DBY: Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.
DRC: Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me.
GNV: Thou takest me vp and causest mee to ride vpon the winde, and makest my strength to faile.
JPS: Thou liftest me up to the wind, Thou causest me to ride upon it; and Thou dissolvest my substance.
LXXE: And thou hast put me to grief, and hast cast me away from safety.

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Written (Ketiv): תְּשֻׁוֶּה׃ (“you are laid down”). Read aloud (Qere): תּוּשִׁיָּֽה׃ (“success”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.

Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)

Leningrad Codex reads תֻּשִׁוָּֽה׃; read aloud (Qere) reads תּוּשִׁיָּֽה׃ (“success”).

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

WLC: תִּשָּׂאֵ֣נִי אֶל־ר֭וּחַ תַּרְכִּיבֵ֑נִי וּ֝תְמֹגְגֵ֗נִי תשוה׃We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.Read aloud as (qere): תּוּשִׁיָּֽה
LXX-Br: Ἔταξας δέ με ἐν ὀδύναις, καὶ ἀπέῤῥιψάς με ἀπὸ σωτηρίας.

Who and where

◆ Job's Trial

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Murmuring Job, Book of

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Cross-references most cited first

Job 27:21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
Psalms 1:4Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
Psalms 104:3laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
Psalms 18:10He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
Jeremiah 4:11–12At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift; a wind too strong for that comes…
Hosea 4:19The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.
Ezekiel 5:2When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind.…
Hosea 13:3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
Job 9:17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.

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